Rare Earth Metal Containing Patents (Class 420/83)
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Publication number: 20150090377Abstract: A steel sheet for hot pressing use according to the present invention has a specified chemical component composition, wherein some of Ti-containing precipitates contained in the steel sheet, each of which having an equivalent circle diameter of 30 nm or less, have an average equivalent circle diameter of 6 nm or less, the precipitated Ti amount and the total Ti amount in the steel fulfill the relationship represented by formula (1) shown below, and the sum total of the fraction of bainite and the fraction of martensite in the metal microstructure is 80 area % or more. Precipitated Ti amount (mass %)?3.4[N]?0.5×[(total Ti amount (mass %))?3.4[N]]??(1) (In the formula (1), [N] represents the content (mass %) of N in the steel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Toshio Murakami, Junya Naitou, Keisuke Okita, Shushi Ikeda
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Publication number: 20150078956Abstract: A method forms a steel sheet having a tensile strength of 440 MPa or more into a press-formed part including a flange portion and other portions by press forming. The method includes: heating the steel sheet to a temperature of 400° C. to 700° C.; and press-forming the heated steel sheet by crash forming to obtain a press-formed part such that an average temperature difference among a flange portion and other portions of the press-formed part immediately after the formation is kept within 100° C. Geometric changes such as springback that occur in a panel can thus be suppressed, dimensional accuracy of the panel can be enhanced accordingly, and the desired mechanical properties can easily be obtained in the press-formed part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Yoshikiyo Tamai, Yuichi Tokita, Toru Minote, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20150064052Abstract: A method of forming a steel sheet having a tensile strength of 440 MPa or more into a press-formed part including a flange portion and other portions by press forming includes: heating the steel sheet to a temperature of 400° C. to 700° C.; and press-forming the heated steel sheet using draw forming to obtain a press-formed part, with the steel sheet being held at a press bottom dead point in the die for one second to five seconds. Geometric changes such as springback that occur in a panel can thus be suppressed, the dimensional accuracy of the panel can be enhanced, and the desired mechanical properties can easily be obtained in the press-formed part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Yuichi Tokita, Yoshikiyo Tamai, Toru Minote, Takeshi Fujita
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Publication number: 20150044086Abstract: A steel wire rod or steel bar as hot-rolled, including: by mass %: C: 0.1 to 0.6%, Si: 0.01 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.5%, Al: 0.015 to 0.3%, and N: 0.0040 to 0.0150%, and P: limited to 0.035% or less and S: limited to 0.025% or less, and the balance substantially consisting of iron and unavoidable impurities, wherein a depth of d (mm) from the surface of the surface layer region with 20 HV 0.2 or more higher, relative to HV 0.2 that is the average hardness in the region where the depth from the surface is from sectional radius R×0.5 (mm) to the center satisfies the formula (1); the steel structure of the surface layer region has a ferrite fraction of 10% or less by area ratio, with the balance being one or two or more of martensite, bainite and pearlite; the steel structure where the depth from the surface is from the sectional radius R×0.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Miyanishi, Atsushi Monden, Shingo Yamasaki, Shunta Homma
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Publication number: 20150040725Abstract: The application discloses a rare-earth permanent magnetic powder, a bonded magnet, and a device using the bonded magnet. The rare-earth permanent magnetic powder comprises 4 to 12 at. % of Nd, 0.1 to 2 at. % of C, 10 to 25 at. % of N and 62.2 to 85.9 at. % of T, wherein T is Fe or FeCo and the main phase of the rare-earth permanent magnetic powder is a hard magnetic phase with a TbCu7 structure. Material volatilization can be avoided effectively during a preparation process of the rare earth permanent magnetic powder, thus improving the wettability with a water-cooling roller during the preparation process and final prepared materials are provided with good magnetic properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventors: Yang Luo, Hongwei Li, Dunbo Yu, Kuoshe Li, Wenlong Yan, Jiajun Xie, Shuai Lu
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Publication number: 20150010426Abstract: Disclosed is an R-T-B—Ga-based magnet material alloy where R is at least one element selected from rare earth metals including Y, and T is one or more transition metals with Fe being an essential element. The R-T-B—Ga-based magnet material alloy includes: an R2T14B phase 3 which is a principal phase, and an R-rich phase (1 and 2) which is a phase enriched with the R, wherein a non-crystalline phase 1 in the R-rich phase has a Ga content (mass %) that is higher than a Ga content (mass %) of a crystalline phase 2 in the R-rich phase. With this, it is possible to enhance the magnetic properties of rare earth magnets that are manufactured from the alloy and reduce variations in the magnetic properties thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Akihiko Saguchi, Noriyuki Negi, Mitsuharu Yonemura
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Publication number: 20140348203Abstract: Provided in one embodiment is a method of identifying a stable phase of an ordering binary alloy system comprising a solute element and a solvent element, the method comprising: determining at least three thermodynamic parameters associated with grain boundary segregation, phase separation, and intermetallic compound formation of the ordering binary alloy system; and identifying the stable phase of the ordering binary alloy system based on the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter by comparing the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter with a predetermined set of respective thermodynamic parameters to identify the stable phase; wherein the stable phase is one of a stable nanocrystalline phase, a metastable nanocrystalline phase, and a non-nanocrystalline phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Heather A. Murdoch, Christopher A. Schuh
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Publication number: 20140341773Abstract: A magnetic refrigeration material includes alloy represented by a composition formula of La(Fe, Si)13H, and the alloy includes ?-Fe by a weight ratio lower than 1 wt % and a plurality of pores so that a packing fraction of the alloy is within a range from 85% to 99%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori Fujinaka, Nobuyoshi Sakakibara
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Publication number: 20140341774Abstract: The present invention provides R-T-B based alloy powders, wherein R represents at least one rare earth element, and T represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of ferrum and cobalt. The R-T-B based alloy powders have main phase grains, grain boundary phases and additive phases. The main phase grains are composed of R2T14B and have an average grain size of 200 nm or more and 500 nm or less. The grain boundary phases are richer in R than the main phase grains. With respect to any cross section of the R-T-B based alloy powders, the coverage of the main phase grains defined by equation 1 with the grain boundary phases with a roundness defined by equation 2 being 0.1 or more and 0.6 or less, is 10% or more and 40% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuhiro Okuda
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Patent number: 8876986Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet having improved stretch-flange formability and excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance. In addition to Fe, C, Si, Mn, P, S, N, and Al, the steel sheet contains V or at least one element of Nb, Ti and Zr. The contents of the at least one element of Nb, Ti and Zr, if present, satisfy the expression of [% C]?[% Nb]/92.9×12?[% Ti]/47.9×12?[% Zr]/91.2×12>0.03. The steel sheet has an area ratio of tempered martensite of 50% or more with ferrite as the remainder. The number of precipitates having a circle-equivalent diameter of 1 to 10 nm is 20 particles or more per 1 ?m2 of the tempered martensite. The number of precipitates containing V or the at least one element of Nb, Ti and Zr and having a circle-equivalent diameter of 20 nm or more is 10 particles or less per 1 ?m2 of the tempered martensite.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2009Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Hata, Toshio Murakami, Akira Ibano, Fumio Yuse, Junichiro Kinugasa
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Publication number: 20140314616Abstract: Provided is a hot-rolled steel sheet having a composition containing 0.04 mass percent to 0.20 mass percent C, 0.7 mass percent to 2.3 mass percent Si, 0.8 mass percent to 2.8 mass percent Mn, 0.1 mass percent or less P, 0.01 mass percent or less S, 0.1 mass percent or less Al, and 0.008 mass percent or less N, the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities. Internal oxides containing one or more selected from the group consisting of Si, Mn, and Fe are present at grain boundaries and in grains in a base metal. The internal oxides present at the grain boundaries in the base metal are located within 5 ?m from the surface of the base metal. The difference between the depths at which the internal oxides are formed in the cross direction of the steel sheet is 2 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Mai Miyata, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Yasunobu Nagataki, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Hirokazu Sugihara
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Publication number: 20140308152Abstract: An R-T-B based alloy strip including columnar crystals of an R2T14B phase, wherein in a cross-section along the thickness direction, columnar crystals extend out in a radial fashion from the crystal nuclei, the R-T-B based alloy strip satisfying the following inequality (1), where D1 and D2 are, respectively, the average value for the lengths of the columnar crystals on one side and the average value for the lengths on the other side that is opposite the one side, in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the cross-section. 0.9/1.1?D2/D1?1.1/0.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Taeko Tsubokura, Eiji Kato, Tamotsu Ishiyama, Nobuhiro Jingu, Chikara Ishizaka
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Publication number: 20140301888Abstract: This H-beam steel contains, in mass %, C, Si, Mn, Al, Ti, N, O, Nb, and B. The H-beam steel has composition in which the amount of Nb and the amount of B satisfy, in mass %, 0.070?Nb+125B?0.155, and has a metal structure in which, in a microstructure, an area fraction of bainite is not less than 70%, a total of an area fraction of pearlite and an area fraction of cementite is not more than 15%, and the remainder is at least one of ferrite and island martensite. The effective crystalline-grain size of the bainite is not more than 40 ?m, and the thickness of a flange falls in a range of 12 to 40 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Kazutoshi Ichikawa, Teruyuki Wakatsuki, Noriaki Onodera, Kohichi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20140290803Abstract: The present invention provides a rare earth based magnet including R2T14B main-phase crystal grains, and two-grain boundary phases between adjacent two R2T14B main-phase crystal grains, the two-grain boundary phases are controlled such that the thickness thereof is 5 nm or more and 500 nm or less, and it is composed of a phase with a magnetism different from that of a ferromagnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Eiji KATO, Yoshinori FUJIKAWA, Taeko TSUBOKURA, Chikara ISHIZAKA, Katsuo SATO
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Publication number: 20140286815Abstract: An R-T-B based alloy strip containing dendritic crystals including a R2T14B phase, wherein on at least one surface, the average value for the widths of the dendritic crystals is no greater than 60 ?m, and the number of crystal nuclei in the dendritic crystals is at least 500 per 1 mm square area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tamotsu Ishiyama, Taeko Tsubokura, Eiji Kato, Nobuhiro Jingu, Chikara Ishizaka
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Patent number: 8840734Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet, containing: C: 0.01 mass % or less; Si: 1.0 mass % or more and 3.5 mass % or less; Al: 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; Mn: 0.1 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less; P: 0.1 mass % or less; S: 0.005 mass % or less; Ti: 0.001 mass % or more and 0.01 mass % or less; N: 0.005 mass % or less; and Y: more than 0.05 mass % and 0.2 mass % or less, with the balance being iron and inevitable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Masafumi Miyazaki, Hideaki Yamamura, Kazuto Kawakami
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Patent number: 8821649Abstract: Characteristics of a magnetic material are improved without using a heavy rare earth element as a scarce resource. By incorporating fluorine into a magnetic powder and controlling the crystal orientation in crystal grains, a magnetic material securing magnetic characteristics such as coercive force and residual flux density can be fabricated. As a result, the resource problem with heavy rare earth elements can be solved, and the magnetic material can be applied to magnetic circuits that require a high energy product, including various rotating machines and voice coil motors of hard discs.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Kanda, Matahiro Komuro, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Yuichi Satsu
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Publication number: 20140242267Abstract: Provided is a rare-earth magnet containing no heavy rare-earth metals such as Dy or Tb in a grain boundary phase, has a modifying alloy for increasing coercivity (in particular, coercivity under a high-temperature atmosphere) infiltrated thereinto at lower temperature than in the conventional rare-earth magnets, has high coercivity, and has relatively high magnetizability, and a production method therefor. The rare-earth magnet RM includes a RE-Fe—B-based main phase MP with a nanocrystalline structure (where RE is at least one of Nd or Pr) and a grain boundary phase BP around the main phase, the grain boundary phase containing a RE-X alloy (where X is a metallic element other than heavy rare-earth elements). Crystal grains of the main phase MP are oriented along the anisotropy axis, and each crystal grain of the main phase, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the anisotropy axis, has a plane that is quadrilateral in shape or has a close shape thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Tetsuya Shoji, Akira Manabe, Noritaka Miyamoto, Motoki Hiraoka, Shinya Omura, Daisuke Ichigozaki, Shinya Nagashima
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Publication number: 20140241934Abstract: Disclosed is a steel sheet in which the amounts of respective elements in chemical components, which are represented by mass %, satisfy the following Expression 1 and Expression 2. In addition, the steel contains Ti-included-carbonitrides as inclusions, and the number density of the Ti-included-carbonitrides having a long side of 5 ?m or more is 3 pieces/mm2 or less. 0.3?{Ca/40.88+(REM/140)/2}/(S/32.07)??(Expression 1) Ca?0.005?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Takashi Morohoshi, Takashi Aramaki, Masafumi Zeze
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Publication number: 20140241933Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet excellent in ductility, work hardenability, and stretch flangeability, and having tensile strength of 780 MPa or more includes: a chemical composition containing, in mass percent, C: more than 0.020% to less than 0.30%, Si: more than 0.10% to 3.00% or less, Mn: more than 1.00% to 3.50% or less; and metallurgical structure whose main phase is a low-temperature transformation product, and whose secondary phase contains retained austenite. The retained austenite has a volume fraction relative to overall structure of more than 4.0% to less than 25.0% and an average grain size of less than 0.80 ?m, and of the retained austenite, the number density of retained austenite grains whose grain size is 1.2 ?m or more is 3.0×10?2 grains/?m2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Haga, Takuya Nishio, Masayuki Wakita, Yasuaki Tanaka, Norio Imai, Toshiro Tomida
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Publication number: 20140227126Abstract: The present invention provides high strength steel pipe for line pipe superior in low temperature toughness suppressed in drop of toughness of the HAZ and a method of production of the same, more particularly high strength steel plate for line pipe used as a material for high strength steel pipe for line pipe and a method of production of the same, in particular high strength steel pipe for line pipe superior in low temperature toughness characterized in that the chemical compositions of the base metal is, by mass %, C: 0.020 to 0.080%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mo: 0.01 to 0.15%, Al: 0.0005 to 0.030%, and Nb: 0.0001 to 0.030% contained in a range of C+0.25Si+0.1Mo+Al+Nb: 0.100% or less and the mixture of austenite and martensite present along prior austenite grain boundaries of the reheated part of the heat affected zone has a width of 10 ?m or less and a length of 50 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Takuya Hara, Hitoshi Asahi, Yoshio Terada
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Publication number: 20140191831Abstract: An R-T-B rare earth sintered magnet contains R which represents a rare earth element; T which represents a transition metal essentially containing Fe; a metal element M which represents Al and/or Ga; B; Cu; and inevitable impurities the R-T-B rare earth sintered magnet including 13.4 to 17 at % of R, 4.5 to 5.5 at % of B, and 0.1 to 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Takashi YAMAZAKI, Kenichiro NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20140132377Abstract: An alloy for R-T-B-based rare earth sintered magnets which contains R which is a rare earth element; T which is a transition metal essentially containing Fe; a metallic element M containing one or more metals selected from Al, Ga and Cu; B and inevitable impurities, in which R accounts for 13 at % to 15 at %, B accounts for 4.5 at % to 6.2 at %, M accounts for 0.1 at % to 2.4 at %, T accounts for balance, a proportion of Dy in all rare earth elements is in a range of 0 at % to 65 at %, and the following Formula 1 is satisfied, 0.0049Dy+0.34?B/TRE?0.0049Dy+0.36??Formula 1 wherein Dy represents a concentration (at %) of a Dy element, B represents a concentration (at %) of a boron element, and TRE represents a concentration (at %) of all the rare earth elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Kenichiro Nakajima, Takashi Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20140134040Abstract: Provided are raw material alloy flakes for a rare earth sintered magnet and a method for producing the same. The alloy flakes have a roll-cooled face, and (1) contain at least one R selected from rare earth metal elements including Y, B, and the balance M including iron, at a particular ratio; (2) as observed in a micrograph at a magnification of 100× of its roll-cooled face, have not less than 5 crystals each of which is a dendrite grown radially from a point of crystal nucleation, and crosses a line segment corresponding to 880 ?m; and (3) as observed in a micrograph at a magnification of 200× of its section taken generally perpendicularly to its roll-cooled face, have an average distance between R-rich phases of not less than 1 ?m and less than 10 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: SANTOKU CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Tabata, Kazumasa Shitani, Takuya Onimura
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Publication number: 20140123682Abstract: Provided is a magnetic refrigeration material which has a Curie temperature of not lower than 250 K, and provides refrigeration performance well over that of conventional materials when subjected to a field change up to 2 Tesla, which is assumed to be achievable with a permanent magnet. The magnetic refrigeration material is of a composition represented by the formula La1 fREf (Fe1 a b c d eSiaCobXcYdZe)13 (RE: at least one of rare earth elements including Sc and Y and excluding La; X: Ga and/or Al; Y: at least one of Ge, Sn, B, and C; Z: at least one of Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Zr; 0.03?a?0.17, 0.003?b?0.06, 0.02?c?0.10, 0?d?0.04, 0?e?0.04, 0?f?0.50), and has an average crystal grain size of not smaller than 0.01 ?m and not larger than 3 ?m, a Curie temperature of not lower than 250 K, and the maximum (??Smax) of magnetic entropy change (??SM) when subjected to a field change up to 2 Tesla is not less than 5 J/kgK.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SANTOKU CORPORATIONInventor: Toshio Irie
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Publication number: 20140120248Abstract: [Problem] To provide a method for producing a sintered R-T-B based magnet which can get a heavy rare-earth element RH diffused efficiently inside a sintered R-T-B based magnet body. [Solution] This method for producing a sintered R-T-B based magnet includes the steps of: providing a sintered R-T-B based magnet body (where R is a rare-earth element and T is a transition metal element which is mostly comprised of Fe); providing an RH diffusion source which is an alloy comprising: 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventor: Futoshi Kuniyoshi
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Publication number: 20140099228Abstract: Disclosed is a steel having high manufacturability and better rolling-contact fatigue properties. The steel contains C of 0.65% to 1.30%, Si of 0.05% to 1.00%, Mn of 0.1% to 2.00%, P of greater than 0% to 0.050%, S of greater than 0% to 0.050%, Cr of 0.15% to 2.00%, Al of 0.010% to 0.100%, N of greater than 0% to 0.025%, Ti of greater than 0% to 0.015%, and O of greater than 0% to 0.0025% and further contains iron and unavoidable impurities. Al-containing nitrogen compound particles dispersed in the steel have an average equivalent circle diameter of 25 to 200 nm, and Al-containing nitrogen compound particles each having an equivalent circle diameter of 25 to 200 nm are present in a number density of 1.1 to 6.0 per square micrometer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2011Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventor: Masaki Kaizuka
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Publication number: 20140072471Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet, containing: C: 0.01 mass % or less; Si: 1.0 mass % or more and 3.5 mass % or less; Al: 0.1 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less; Mn: 0.1 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less; P: 0.1 mass % or less; S: 0.005 mass % or less; Ti: 0.001 mass % or more and 0.01 mass % or less; N: 0.005 mass % or less; and Y: more than 0.05 mass % and 0.2 mass % or less, with the balance being iron and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Inventors: Masafumi Miyazaki, Hideaki Yamamura, Kazuto Kawakami
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Publication number: 20140065004Abstract: The invention discloses a low-cost double-main-phase Ce permanent magnet alloy and its preparation method, and belongs to technical field of rare earth permanent magnet material. The Ce permanent magnet alloy has a chemical formula of (Cex,Re1-x)aFe100-a-b-cBbTMc in mass percent, wherein 0.4?x?0.8, 29?a?33, 0.8?b?1.5, 0.5?c?2, Re is one or more selected from Nd, Pr, Dy, Tb and Ho elements, and TM is one or more selected from Ga, Co, Cu, Nb and Al elements; the Ce permanent magnet alloy has a double-main-phase structure with a low HA phase in (Ce,Re)—Fe—B and a high HA phase in Nd—Fe—B. The double-main-phase Ce permanent magnet alloy of the present invention prepared by using a double-main-phase alloy method greatly lowers the production cost of magnet while maintaining excellent magnetic performances.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: CENTRAL IRON AND STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Wei Li, Minggang Zhu, Haibo Feng, Anhua Li, Shulin Huang, Yanfeng Li, Yachao Sun, Jingdai Wang
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Publication number: 20140056752Abstract: A steel material has excellent atmospheric corrosion resistance and a composition which contains more than 0.06% and less than 0.14% C, 0.05% or more and 2.00% or less Si, 0.20% or more and 2.00% or less Mn, 0.005% or more and 0.030% or less P, 0.0001% or more and 0.0200% or less S, 0.001% or more and 0.100% or less Al, 0.10% or more and 1.00% or less Cu, 0.10% or more and 0.65% or less Ni, 0.0001% or more and 1.000% or less Mo, preferably 0.005% or more and 1.000% or less Mo, 0.005% or more and 0.200% or less Nb, and Fe and unavoidable impurities as a balance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Shinichi Miura, Isamu Kage, Tsutomu Komori, Toshiyuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 8657969Abstract: A high strength galvanized steel sheet has a TS of 590 MPa or more and excellent processability. The component composition contains, by mass %, C: 0.05% to 0.3%, Si: 0.7% to 2.7%, Mn: 0.5% to 2.8%, P: 0.1% or lower, S: 0.01% or lower, Al: 0.1% or lower, and N: 0.008% or lower, and the balance: Fe or inevitable impurities. The microstructure contains, in terms of area ratio, ferrite phases: 30% to 90%, bainite phases: 3% to 30%, and martensite phases: 5% to 40%, in which, among the martensite phases, martensite phases having an aspect ratio of 3 or more are present in a proportion of 30% or more.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2009Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Tatsuya Nakagaito, Shinjiro Kaneko, Saiji Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20140030135Abstract: A high-strength non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains: in mass %, C: 0.010% or less; Si: not less than 2.0% nor more than 4.0%; Mn: not less than 0.05% nor more than 0.50%; Al: not less than 0.2% nor more than 3.0%; N: 0.005% or less; S: not less than 0.005% nor more than 0.030%; and Cu: not less than 0.5% nor more than 3.0%, a balance being composed of Fe and inevitable impurities. An expression (1) is established where a Mn content is represented as [Mn] and a S content is represented as [S], and not less than 1.0×104 pieces nor more than 1.0×106 pieces of sulfide having a circle-equivalent diameter of not less than 0.1 ?m nor more than 1.0 ?m are contained per 1 mm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Arita, Masahiro Fujikura, Hidekuni Murakami
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Publication number: 20140007593Abstract: Provided is a magnetic refrigeration material which has a Curie temperature near room temperature or higher, and provides refrigeration performance well over that of conventional materials when subjected to a field change up to 2 Tesla, which is assumed to be achievable with a permanent magnet. The magnetic refrigeration material is of a composition represented by the formula La1-fREf(Fe1-a-b-c-d-eSiaCObXcYdZe)13 (RE: at least one of rare earth elements including Sc and Y and excluding La; X: Ga and/or Al; Y: at least one of Ge, Sn, B, and C; Z: at least one of Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Zr; 0.03?a?0.17, 0.003?b?0.06, 0.02?c?0.10, 0?d?0.04, 0?e?0.04, 0?f?0.50), and has Tc of not lower than 220 K and not higher than 276 K, and the maximum (??Smax) of magnetic entropy change (??SM) of the material when subjected to a field change up to 2 Tesla is not less than 5 J/kgK.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: SANTOKU CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Takata, Toshio Irie
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Publication number: 20140003990Abstract: The steel plate of the invention is a high-tension steel plate that has a tensile strength of 1100 MPa or more and is excellent in base metal toughness and HAZ toughness and preferably in abrasion resistance. The steel plate satisfies a predetermined requirement of components in the steel. The Ceq (IIW) represented by the following equation ranges from 0.40 to 0.45 both inclusive: Ceq (IIW)=[C]+{?×[Mn]}+{?×([Cr]+[Mo]+[V])}+{ 1/15+([Cu]+[Ni])} in which each parenthesis-symbol [ ] means the content by percentage of an element in the parentheses. Oxide grains having a maximum diameter of 2 ?m or less are present in a number density of 200/mm2 or more in the steel. The steel is composed of 29% or more by volume of martensite microstructure, and bainite microstructure as the balance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventor: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
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Publication number: 20130330226Abstract: This high-strength steel sheet has a component composition containing, in mass %, 0.02 to 0.3% C, 1 to 3% Si, 1.8 to 3% Mn, 0.1% or less P, 0.01% or less S, 0.001 to 0.1% Al, and 0.002 to 0.03% N, the remainder being iron and impurities. The high-strength steel sheet has a structure containing, in terms of area ratio relative to the entire structure, each of the following phases: 50 to 85% bainitic ferrite; 3% or more retained austenite (?); 10 to 45% martensite and the aforementioned retained austenite (?); and 5 to 40% ferrite. The ratio between the Mn concentration (Mn?R) in the retained austenite (?) and the average Mn concentration (Mnav) in the entire structure is 1.2 or more (Mn?R/ Mnav) based on the Mn concentration distribution obtained by means of EPMA line analysis. As a consequence, the high-strength steel sheet exhibits strength of 980 MPa or more and exerts excellent deep drawability.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Toshio Murakami, Elijah Kakiuchi, Hideo Hata, Tatsuya Asai, Naoki Mizuta
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Publication number: 20130323112Abstract: In a hot-rolled sheet, an average value of pole densities of an orientation group {100}<011> to {223}<110>, which is represented by an arithmetic mean of pole densities of orientations {100}<011>, {116}<110>, {114}<110>, {112}<110>, and {223}<110> in a thickness center portion of a thickness range of ? to ? from a surface of the steel sheet, is 1.0 to 6.5 and a pole density of a crystal orientation {332}<113> is 1.0 to 5.0; and a Lankford value rC in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.10 and a Lankford value r30 in a direction that forms 30° with respect to the rolling direction is 0.70 to 1.10.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Riki Okamoto, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Kunio Hayashi, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Kazuaki Nakano, Takeshi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20130284319Abstract: A high strength, high toughness steel alloy is disclosed. The alloy has the following weight percent composition. Element C 0.30-0.55 Mn ?0.6-1.75 Si ?0.9-2.8 Cr ?0.6-2.5 Ni 2.70-7.0? Mo + ½ W 0.25-1.3? Cu 0.30-1.25 Co ?0.01 max. V + (5/9) × Nb 0.10-1.0? Ti ?0.01 max. Al 0.015 max. Ca 0.005 max. The alloy further includes a grain refining element selected from the group consisting of 0.0001-0.01% Mg, 0.001-0.025% Y, and a combination thereof. The balance of the alloy is iron and usual impurities. Also disclosed is a hardened and tempered steel article having very high strength and fracture toughness and formed from the alloy set forth above. The alloy article according to this aspect of the invention is further characterized by being tempered at a temperature of about 500° F. to 600° F.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventor: Paul M. Novotny
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Publication number: 20130270246Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a similar-metal-composition welding solid wire, and weld metals therefor, with which both excellent bead shape and high ultralow-temperature toughness for the weld joints can be achieved when welding 9% Ni steels together by means of a high-efficiency MIG welding method. A fixed ratio of a REM and O are included in a similar-metal-composition welding solid wire of a 9% NI steel base material, and oxygen is supplied in a trace amount in a range that does not hinder the ultralow-temperature toughness of the weld joint (1a) but that is capable of forming fine REM oxides in the weld metal (3) and of controlling the weld metal to produce an excellent bead shape. In addition, both Al and Ti are regulated and an argon gas that contains little or no carbon dioxide gas is used as the shield gas in the MIG welding method. Thus, both an excellent bead shape and high ultralow-temperature toughness for the weld joint (1a) can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yoshitomi Okazaki, Hidenori Nako, Munenobu Sato, Masafumi Yamakami
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Patent number: 8518194Abstract: A magnetic article comprises, in total, elements in amounts capable of providing at least one (La1-aMa)(Fe1-b-cTbYc)13-dXe phase and less than 0.5 Vol % impurities, wherein 0?a?0.9, 0?b?0.2, 0.05?c?0.2, ?1?d?+1, 0?e?3, M is one or more of the elements Ce, Pr and Nd, T is one or more of the elements Co, Ni, Mn and Cr, Y is one or more of the elements Si, Al, As, Ga, Ge, Sn and Sb and X is one or more of the elements H, B, C, N, Li and Be. The magnetic article comprises a permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Matthias Katter, Joachim Gerster, Ottmar Roth
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Publication number: 20130216422Abstract: Provided is an abrasion-resistant steel plate or sheet which exhibits excellent weld toughness and excellent delayed fracture resistance and is thus suitable for construction machines, industrial machines, and so on. Specifically provided is a steel plate or sheet which contains, in mass %, 0.20 to 0.30% of C, 0.05 to 1.0% of Si, 0.40 to 1.2% of Mn, 0.010% or less of P, 0.005% or less of S, 0.40 to 1.5% of Cr, 0.005 to 0.025% of Nb, 0.005 to 0.03% of Ti, 0.1% or less of Al, 0.01% or less of N, and, as necessary, one or more of Mo, W, B, Cu, Ni, V, REM, Ca and Mg, and has a DI* of 45 to 180 while satisfying the relationship: C+Mn/4?Cr/3+10P?0.47, and which has a microstructure that comprises martensite as the matrix phase. DI*=33.85×(0.1×C)0.5×(0.7×Si+1)×(3.33×Mn+1)×(0.35×Cu+1)×(0.36×Ni+1)×(2.16×Cr+1)×(3×Mo+1)×(1.75×V+1)×(1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Keiji Ueda, Shinichi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20130153091Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet has an average value of the X-ray random intensity ratio of a {100} <011> to {223} <110> orientation group at least in a sheet thickness central portion that is in a sheet thickness range of ? to ? from a steel sheet surface of 1.0 to 6.0, an X-ray random intensity ratio of a {332} <113> crystal orientation of 1.0 to 5.0, rC which is an r value in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction of 0.70 to 1.10, and r30 which is an r value in a direction that forms an angle of 30° with respect to the rolling direction of 0.70 to 1.10.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuhiro Fujita, Kunio Hayashi, Riki Okamoto, Manabu Takahashi, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20130139991Abstract: Provided is bearing steel having excellent fatigue life by minimizing segregation during casting of the bearing steel and reducing the generation of large carbides in a segregation band. The high-carbon chromium bearing steel includes 0.5 wt % to 1.2 wt % of carbon (C), 0.15 wt % to 2.0 wt % of silicon (Si), 0.05 wt % to 0.45 wt % of manganese (Mn), 0.025 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of phosphorus (P), 0.025 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of sulfur (S), 0.1 wt % to 1.6 wt % of chromium (Cr), 0.01 wt % to 0.3 wt % of Ce, and iron (Fe) as well as other unavoidable impurities as a remainder. A method of manufacturing the steel is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: POSCOInventor: Kwan-Ho Kim
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Publication number: 20130142688Abstract: The present invention provides a high-strength steel sheet including: C: 0.03 to 0.25 mass %, Si: 0.1 to 2.0 mass %, Mn: 0.5 to 3.0 mass %, P: not more than 0.05 mass %, T.O: not more than 0.0050 mass %, S: 0.0001 to 0.01 mass %, N: 0.0005 to 0.01 mass %, acid-soluble Al: more than 0.01 mass %, Ca: 0.0005 to 0.0050 mass %, and a total of at least one element of Ce, La, Nd, and Pr: 0.001 to 0.01 mass %, with a balance including iron and inevitable impurities, in which the steel sheet contains a chemical component on a basis of mass that satisfies 0.7<100×([Ce]+[La]+[Nd]+[Pr])/[acid-soluble Al]?70 and 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Kenichi Yamamoto, Hideaki Yamamura, Yuzo Takahashi, Osamu Kawano, Kohsuke Kume, Junji Haji, Daisuki Maeda, Yoshihiro Suwa
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Publication number: 20130142687Abstract: Provided are alloy flakes for rare earth sintered magnet, which achieve a high rare earth component yield after pulverization with respect to before pulverization and a uniform particle size after pulverization, and a method for producing such alloy at high energy efficiency in an industrial scale. The method includes (A) preparing an alloy melt containing R composed of at least one element selected from rare earth metal elements including Y, B, and the balance M composed of Fe, or of Fe and at least one element selected from transition metal elements other than Fe, Si, and C, (B) rapidly cooling/solidifying the alloy melt to not lower than 700° C. and not higher than 1000° C. by strip casting with a cooling roll, and (C) heating and maintaining, in a particular temperature range, alloy flakes separated from the roll by rapid cooling and solidifying in step (B) before the flakes are cooled to not higher than 500° C., to obtain alloy flakes having a composition of 27.0 to 33.0 mass % R, 0.90 to 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: SANTOKU CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Onimura, Shinya Tabata
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Publication number: 20130101457Abstract: This steel for a machine structure contains, in mass %: C: 0.40% to less than 0.75%; Si: 0.01% to 3.0%; Mn: 0.1% to 1.8%; S: 0.001% to 0.1%; Al: more than 0.1% and not more than 1.0%; N: 0.001% to 0.02%; and P: limited to not more than 0.05%, with a balance including Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the steel satisfies 139.38 ?214×[C]+30.6×[Si]+42.8×[Mn]?14.7×[Al]?177 and 0.72?[C]+1/7×[Si]+1/5×[Mn]<1.539.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiharu Aiso, Suguru Yoshida, Manabu Kubota, Kei Miyanishi, Shuji Kozawa
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Patent number: 8425695Abstract: A rare earth sintered magnet includes a main phase that includes an R2T14B phase of crystal grain where R is one or more rare earth elements including Nd, T is one or more transition metal elements including Fe or Fe and Co, and B is B or B and C; a grain boundary phase in which a content of R is larger than a content of the R2T14B phase; and a grain boundary triple point that is surrounded by three or more main phases. The grain boundary triple point includes an R75 phase containing R of 60 at % to 90 at %, Co, and Cu. The relational expression 0.05?(Co+Cu)/R<0.5 is satisfied. An area where a Co-rich region overlaps with a Cu-rich region in a cross-sectional area of the grain boundary triple point is 60% or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Takuma Hayakawa, Ryouta Kunieda
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Publication number: 20130087248Abstract: A method for producing a sintered R-T-B based magnet includes the steps of: providing a sintered R-T-B based magnet body 1; providing an RH diffusion source including a heavy rare-earth element RH (which is at least one of Dy and Tb) and 30 mass % to 80 mass % of Fe; loading the sintered R-T-B based magnet body 1 and the RH diffusion source 2 into a processing chamber 3 so that the magnet body 1 and the diffusion source 2 are movable relative to each other and are readily brought close to, or in contact with, each other; and performing an RH diffusion process in which the sintered magnet body 1 and the RH diffusion source 2 are heated to a processing temperature of more than 850° C. through 1000° C. while being moved either continuously or discontinuously in the processing chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Inventor: Futoshi Kuniyoshi
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Publication number: 20130039803Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength steel plate having a predetermined chemical composition, in which a microstructure of the steel plate at a depth of one-fourth to one half the thickness from a surface has an area fraction of bainite of 90% or more, an average lath width of bainite of 3.5 ?m or less, and a maximum equivalent circle diameter of martensite-austenite constituents in bainite of 3.0 ?m or less. The steel plate exhibits high strengths and good drop weight properties and is useful as structural materials for offshore structure, ships, and bridges, as well as materials for pressure vessels in nuclear power plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hiroyuki Takaoka, Eiichi Tamura
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Publication number: 20130022490Abstract: Disclosed is a high-strength steel plate with excellent warm workability that has a component composition comprising, in mass %, 0.05 to 0.4% C, 0.5 to 3% Si+Al, 0.5 to 3% Mn, no more than 0.15% P (not including 0%), and no more than 0.02% S (including 0%), with the remainder comprising iron and impurities, and a composition that includes a total of 45 to 80% martensite and/or bainitic ferrite in terms of the area ratio relative to the entire composition, 5 to 40% polygonal ferrite in terms of the area ratio relative to the entire composition, and 5 to 20% retained austenite in terms of the area ratio relative to the entire composition, wherein the C concentration (C?R) within said residual austenite is in the range of 0.6 mass % to less than 1.0 mass %, and that furthermore may include bainite. In the high-strength steel plate, TRIP effects are achieved to the fullest extent in warm working, and increased ductility over prior steel plates is reliably achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Hideo Hata, Toshio Murakami, Yukihiro Utsumi
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Publication number: 20120328467Abstract: Method for the production of mixed oxides and permanent magnetic particles, based on rare earths-transition metals to produce RETM magnetic materials, comprising the preparation of a parent compounds mixture; introducing the parent compound mixture into a reactor with heat energy input, where the atomization die generates fine droplets as spray or aerosol; subjecting the fine droplets formed to pyrolysis and combustion, and; reducing the mixed oxide particles formed and collected as homogenous powder, obtaining permanent magnetic particles; being a simple method and allowing to obtain homogeneous and versatile compositions, especially for Rare Earth-Transition Metal (RETM) type permanent magnets, where RE (rare earth) can be, for example, an element such as neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium or a combination thereof, among other possibilities, and TM (transition metal) can be, for example, iron, cobalt, nickel or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Claudio FERNANDEZ ACEVEDO, Luis Martinez De Morentin Osaba, Tamara Oroz Mateo, Cristina Salazar Castro, Angelica Perez Manso, Ana Carmen Esparza Hermoso